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Can anyone please tell me how to either edit (or discover) the local hostname password.
Mac keeps asking for "Network Credentials" to connect to PC, it seems this password (unknown and not my login) is the stumbling block. I can edit by clicking UDHN but it does not stick.
Earlier Mac models
<<. it appears that the "Master password" is different to the Login password in the Mac!! >>
there is no Master password on a Mac. There is no Owner of a Mac. The Mac allows multiple Users, any of which can log in. An Account that also has Admin privilege associated with it can make many more changes.
One unusual feature you have selected as shown in your screenshot above, is Dynamic Global Hostname. That is used to give your Mac stable domain-name on the Internet even if your IP address changes:
Use a dynamic global hostname on Mac - Apple Support
You don't need that feature at all if your PC you are connecting to is on the same local network.
How to change your Master Password
The password you need to connect to another computer such as a PC, is exactly the same PC password you need to access those files -- essentially the PC login password.
Your very clever Mac is acting behalf of the remote PC, and asking you to enter that password, which will then presented to the PC for verification.
Hi, thanks but that is not the answer, I am way past that.
Firstly I use a 6 digit PIN to log into both the Mac and the PC, that obviously does not work.
Secondly I have the original old password (ending in 2016) recorded in SafeNotes, that does not work either.
Thirdly you will note that the "Network Credentials" password has 16 digits, I have never had a 16 digit password for anything, and yes the number of dots always correlates to the number of characters/digits.
So far I have reset the password for both machines, checked all the sharing settings, created a Credential for the Mac in the PC, etc. etc. etc. Nothing seen in Keychain of any use.
Three things to Note: firstly the Mac now asks for my name and the pin at login (probably just a setting), and then I get a message pop up "Problem connecting to the server "texxxsi5" (the PC). I also get the "Finish changing password" message (for last 6 months) which no one seems to have solved.
And I would point out this just started out of the blue, everything was kosher for the last couple of years.
Interestingly Goodsync was happily backing up files from the PC to the Mac (even though I couldn't access the machine) until two days ago, now it declares the name or password is incorrect!
I was recently able to access the PC from the Mac, now I can't access either way.
I am in a home environment and I am admin on both machines, unfortunately computers seem to be made so secure now that you can no longer use them!
Having said all that I may have just found the issue, it appears that the "Master password" is different to the Login password in the Mac!! Now the issue is I have no idea what it is.
I have just run the Cmd+R and done a reset of the master password, and it has allowed me to change the password in "Network Credentials", and it looks like it stuck this time.
Reboot and I still get "server unavailable" connecting to PC!
I give up.
terryfrompatterson lakes wrote:
How to change your Master Password•
Click Sticky Password in the menu bar, and select Preferences… in the dropdown menu.
• Click Security.
• Click Change in the Master Password section.
• First, you'll need to enter your current Master Password. Then enter your new Master Password, confirm it and click OK.
• That's it!
How to change your Master Password on Mac
That advice if for an app named StickyPassword. If you are NOT running StickyPassword, that advice does NOT apply to your Mac. it instructs you how to change the Master password for the StickyPassword Store, which holds all the StickyPasword passwords, similar to the Keychain built into your Mac.
if you are running StickyPassword, your should have led with that.
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